After last week's Article Level Metrics workshop, PLOS hosted a “data challenge” in their San Francisco offices. With datasets from PLOS, CrossRef, ImpactStory, Mendeley and Altmetrics, attendees got a few hours to tinker around and see what they could do with it.

Barring Gmail, Reader is (was) my favourite Google product. I use it multiple times per day and it's one of only 4 Chrome extensions that I have shown permanently on my toolbar. Admittedly I only use it for the most basic functionality (ie. reading my fricking feeds), but thats why I stuck with it. I can't stand all the crap that alternatives shove at you. - looking at you feedly...﻿

PSA: I've just upgraded my phone, and I need a new SIM for it. This means that my old sim will be out of commission for a few days, meaning that I won't get calls/texts. However I'll still get emails, tweets, G+, Skype, etc. Hit me up there if ya need me :)﻿

Hot on the heels of our interview with Robin Berjon, editor of HTML5 at W3C, over the weekend I interviewed Ian Hickson, editor of HTML “The Living Standard” at WHATWG and, arguably, the most influent...

Doesn't this open a security hole? No, for two reasons: The domain of the resource is corsproxy.com , so none of the user's cookies for the upstream domain are sent. We strip out Cookie headers, so ev...